Tropical diseases

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1847 Tulane University was organized by a bunch of doctors to fight tropical diseases
1894 Cantlie's work in Hong Kong included investigations into leprosy and into various tropical diseases, in 1894 he encountered an outbreak of plague.
1976-Today Ebola
1978 Califano at his address at the World Health Organization that it was his intention to improve research where tropical diseases were a problem. The NIH and WHO would colaborate in creating a Global Epidemic Surveillance Service and...
1987-Today Ravn virus (RAVV)
1998-Today Taï Forest ebolavirus
African trypanosomiasis AKA African sleeping sickness
Carrion's disease
Chagas disease
Chikungunya
Cholera
Dengue fever
Dracunculiasis
E. coli (Escherichia coli O157:H7)
Ebola virus disease (EVD)
Ebolavirus
Echinococcosis
Fungal infection
Giardiasis
Global Infectious Disease Epidemiology Network (GIDEON)
Hookworm infection
James Cantlie
Japanese encephalitis (JE)
Lassa fever (LHF)
Lassa mammarenavirus
Leishmaniasis
Leprosy AKA Hansen's disease (HD)
Leptospirosis
Malaria
Marburg virus disease (MVD)
Myiasis
Neglected Diseases
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs)
New Orleans and tropical diseases links
Nonvenereal endemic syphilis (bejel)
Oropouche fever
Relapsing fever
Reston virus (RESTV)
Rift Valley fever (RVF)
Salmonella
Scabies
Seasoning (colonialism)
Sudan ebolavirus
Viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF)
Yaws
Yellow fever
Yellow fever virus
Zaire ebolavirus